Maria Elizabetha Henckel 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 31 Dec 1699 - Daudenzell, Germany
    Christening: 4 Jan 1700 - Evangelical Lutheran Church, Daudenzell
          Death: After 1746
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Anthony Jacob Henckel (1668-1728) 2
         Mother: Maria Elizabeth Dentzer (      -1744) 3
Notes
General:
THE HENCKEL GENEALOGY:

The following is on page 21 of "The Henckel Genealogy":

5. Maria Elizabetha Henckel born December 31, 1699 Daudenzell, Germany; baptized January 4, 1700 Evangelical Lutheran Church at Daudenzell, Germany; died after 1746. (See Branch III this genealogy.)

The following is a selection from page 150 of "The Henckel Genealogy":

MARIA ELISABETH HENCKEL, the fifth and third surviving child of Reverend Anthony Jacob (1668-1728) and Maria Elisabeth (Dentzer 1672-1744) Henckel, was born December 31, 1699 Daudenzell, Germany; baptized January 4, 1700 at Daudenzell Lutheran Church by her father Reverend Anthony Jacob Henckel. Her Godparents were Sabina Maria Catherine Sophia wife of Herr Gerhard Sartorius, pro tempore pastor at Neccar Zimmeran and Anna Elisabeth, wife of Herr Justus Berthold a celebrated surgeon of Heidelberg.

There seems little definite information of this daughter who according to family tradition married Elias Kuhn. She apparently resided near New Hanover where her father settled in 1717. She appeared in 1744 as a sponsor in the New Hanover or Swamp Church for a daughter of Ludwig Kuhn (very probably her grand-daughter). She appears again on October 26, 1746 as a sponsor in the same church for a child of Casper and Anna Barbara (________) Rupert. In this instance she would have been 46 years of age and apparently a widow as her husband did not appear as co-sponsor.

Information of "Elias Kuhn" has never been secured by those engaged in Henckel family research.

There has been a great deal of speculation as to where Maria Elizabetha (Henckel) Kuhn originally settled. Kuhn, Koon, Kunz, Koonce, Kuntz families have been found in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and in the midwest states but all efforts to show their alliance with the Henckels has so far failed.

The large family in Frederick County, Maryland tends to substantiate the claim the sister moved to that area in company with George Rudolphus Henckel and Maria Catherine Henckel Apfel (Apple).

It seems probable the Kuhn family located in some distant area and when Maria Elisabetha returned about 1744, to the vicinity of New Hanover, she was a widow. No further information available after 1746. Had "the lost diary" of her father ever been located, this and many of the other problems of the early family would have been resolved.
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Sources

1 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 21, 150.

2 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pgs 18, 26, 882.

3 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 882.

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